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Psalm 119:33-40
Proper 18A
A few weeks back, for the last Sunday in July, the RCL took us to a snippet of Psalm 119 (verses 129-136), and now here we are again – but this time verses 33-40. So to review all the basics: Psalm 119 is the longest of all the psalms clocking in at 176 verses. Those…
Exodus 12:1-14
Proper 18A
Illustration Back-to-School season has evolved since my day. A trip to Walmart for a Trapper-Keeper and new colored pencils, maybe a special new outfit has been elaborated with specific first-day-of-school social media posts, maybe a clap-in at school, a “Blessing of the Backpacks” at church. None of it is wrong … it’s just become elaborate,…
Exodus 3:1-15
Proper 17A
From the banks of the Nile to a parched mountain (the literal translation of Horeb), we find Moses settled into the humble lifestyle of a nomadic shepherd just about as far from Pharaoh’s court as humanly possible. The King James tells us that, as the curtain rises on this scene, Moses is hanging out with…
Psalm 26:1-8
Proper 17A
Probably it is the Calvinism that is fairly well ingrained into my being that makes me hesitate over parts of Psalm 26. I mean, I just cannot imagine coming before my God in Christ and saying, “I have led a blameless life.” Were I to pray along the lines of saying to God, “I wash…
Psalm 138
Proper 16A
In the film The Godfather Part II, we see in flashbacks the rise of the mafia kingpin Don Vito Corleone back in the early 1900s. At one point a friend of Vito’s wife was being kicked out of her apartment because she had been keeping a dog against the apartment rules. So Vito talks to…
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